biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Hot chocolate and cookie o clock time
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Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I once took my car to the garage to have a failed boot catch mended. Threw the road bike in the back so I could ride home - as you do. It's only one and a half miles, so...
It started spitting as I left the garage, by the time I was 200 yards down the road, the heavens had opened, and there's me, on skinny slick tyres and no mudguards, caught in an early March deluge. So it was fecking COLD rain and all... By the time I got home, I was pouring the water out of my shoes, so you can imagine what state the rest of me was in. Never mind the bike.
Needless to say, I called the garage to say I would be picking the car up the next day, rather than later that afternoon.
It started spitting as I left the garage, by the time I was 200 yards down the road, the heavens had opened, and there's me, on skinny slick tyres and no mudguards, caught in an early March deluge. So it was fecking COLD rain and all... By the time I got home, I was pouring the water out of my shoes, so you can imagine what state the rest of me was in. Never mind the bike.
Needless to say, I called the garage to say I would be picking the car up the next day, rather than later that afternoon.
classic33
Leg End Member
How exactly?I've got the kettle on.
This is what I rode through on the way to town this afternoon.... It rolled in, rolled over me and rolled into the distance behind me 😂
I was wet, but fortunately the letter I was hand delivering was in my waterproof backpack remained dry👍
gavgav
Legendary Member
It was indeed. I was in comprehensive school, during a French lesson, in those classrooms that had sliding wooden framed windows, which rattled at the best of times and boy did they then! We were looking directly at the 2 storey Humanities block and distinctly remember it visually shaking.
gavgav
Legendary Member
That’s the one, don’t think it was enough to do any damage or injure anyone, thankfully. The different reports are interesting, even @Rickshaw Phil reporting 30 seconds of shaking, but I’m about 2 mile down the road and it was a distinct bang and then only about 10 seconds of shaking. Those in the North of the county report similar to me, an initial big shudder and then short time of shaking
gavgav
Legendary Member
I guess in major earthquake zones it would be, but in sleepy Shropshire we don’t get much to excite us 🤣
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Generally not too bad a day. Only one shower just after lunch and the ret sunshine but still not warm.
Got the trike out to inflate tyres and general check over behind my car when another car pulled up we conversed for while until I twigged it was our Head Girl from our knitwear days. Ye gods she looks old I thought and no wonder as she is about 15 years younger than me.
Got the trike out to inflate tyres and general check over behind my car when another car pulled up we conversed for while until I twigged it was our Head Girl from our knitwear days. Ye gods she looks old I thought and no wonder as she is about 15 years younger than me.
Oldhippy
Cynical idealist
I stupidly ignored the instructions on a shelf unit I I bought for my apartment in Tokyo which said attach shelf to wall. I didn't do again when I ended up sharing my bed with a fully laden book shelf in the middle of the night. Had I been a couple of feet over it would really hurt. As Andy said it is every day in Japan, some bigger than others. Weirdly you do get used to it.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
A field with poppies on my ride today, before the storms caught up with me.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
It would have been soggy toast!
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Right, I'm off to find me a 
and a biskit.
and a biskit.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Just made cup of green tea 🍵
- Location
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Yes, that's the one. I notice that there are different reports about it with many mentioning a bang and the shaking only lasting a few seconds. Here you could hear the rumble coming - I mistook it for a bus coming up the road - and the shaking was vigorous at first then got gentler but lasted some time. No damage that I'm aware of and it wasn't bad enough for anyone to get hurt.
... in 1990. That was the first earthquake I'd experienced and properly scary. I was on my own at home when everything started shaking far more dramatically than this latest one, with ornaments falling over. I thought the cabinet behind my chair was going to topple onto me so spent the time trying to steady it.
The national press pretty much ignored it at the time which I thought surprising. My suspicion is that that because of it happening on the 2nd of April they probably dismissed it as an April Fool gag that had only just filtered through to them.
We got away with just a few cracks in the plaster that time but it did do structural damage to a few buildings round the area - mostly cracked walls or collapsed chimneys.
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AndreaJ
Veteran
I was at work in Ellesmere at the time and none of us noticed it😂.
